The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-22
Notes and Opinions.

rare days, roses, StfaWDerr1eS, sweet
girl graduates " and weddings.
JEFF. DAVIS is recovering in meas
ure from his antipathy to the North.
He passed over the Pennsylvania rail-
road the other day.
THE Sac Oowa) Sun advertises the
county Jail for rent, saying that it is
empty and likely to remain so as long
as prohibition lasts.
WHEN lynchers grab a negro he
might as well confess all the crimes he
is charged with. He will be hanged
anyway. Orleans Picaylme.
"THE trouble with socialism in this
country" said noted communist leader
recently, " is that the working classes
are so discouragingly prosperous ,"
JUDGE Brown in New York has de-
cided that immigrants can only be pre-
vented from landing in America be-
cause of incapacity, idiocy or lunacy."
FEAR of cholera and yellow fever is
driving many southern people north
ward. They will all be welcome, pro-
vided they bring with them money
rather than the pestilence.
THE Washington National Repub-
lican intimates that Secretary Fairchild
has made Virginia republican by COM
hitting the administration against the
removal of the tobacco tax.
TURKEY has coded Cyprus to En-
gland. This is like the action of a
little black-and-tan dog which cedes a
bone to the big bull-terrier that has
come and taken it.-7ribme.
THE New York Times and Spring.
field Republican are unhappy because
the republican party is disposed to ig-
more the mugwumps. AS the mug
wumps have determined to stay out
side of the republican party honors are
now tolerably easy
SPEAKER CARLISLE talks about the
probability of an extra session of con-
gress. The contraction of the cur
rency may be so great, he says, as to
require it in order to prevent panic.
Why, we thought that under this demo-
cratic administration the country was
never more prosperous and financial
affairs were going along swimmingly.
IT is beautiful scheme which the
Golden Club of London is said to have
mapped out for itself-that of estab-
fishing and maintaining a free-trade
newspaper in each of the leading
American cities. Still, we do not see
that the mugwump organs and the hon.
est, open-face free-trade journals, like
the Philadelphia Record and the Louis
vile Couier-Journal, are anywhere
neglecting their duty.-Phila. Press.
IN leading article, last week, Har-
per'S Weekly expresses the opinion that
the present probability points TO Mr..
Blaine's denomination in 1888, that
Mr.. Sherman represents precisely the
same view and spirit and policy that
Mr., Blaine does, and that Mr.. Cleve-
land will be his own platform - next
year. In the light of the acts of the
administration during the past few
months, Mr.. Cleveland's platform will
not be strong enough to bear the strain
that will be put upon it.
THE President is making his south
ern campaign by easy stages. The Of
fetal honors paid to the memory of
Jacob Thompson, the appointment of
several hundreds of rebel brigaders to
office, the ELUSIVE letter of regret sent
to the Albert Sidney Johnston Monu-
ment Association, the stilted tribute
to Calhoun's wisdom and the return
of the captured rebel battle-fags have
been sops to the solid South, which
made him President and can nominate
him again if it finds him sufficiently
docile.-Iribune.
A CANVASS of the presidential prefer
ences of prominent editors and poll
ticians of the Northwest shows that
among the democrats two hundred
ninety-seven are for Cleveland and
twenty-three for Hill, while nineteen
are classed as scattering" Among
the republicans two hundred thirty
eight are for Blaine, seventy-eight
for Sherman, sixty-three for Allison,
nineteen for Lincoln and twenty
grouped as I" scattering" Villas leads
among the democratic candidates for
the vice-presidency and Harrison among
the republican.
THE long-expected appointment of
Clarence ii. Pitkin, Esq, to be United
States district attorney in this state
was made last week. The term of
Colonel Kittredge Haskins in this of
flee would not have expired for nearly
two years, but the administration has
abandoned all pretense of retaining of
fice-holders until the expiration of
their official commissions. Mr.. Pit
kin is lawyer of fine abilities and will
do especial credit to the position. 1t is
not "fat place." as some of the
papers have stated, but lean one,
though the honor is worth something.
THE Commercial Gazette favors the
nomination and election of John Sher-
man for President of the United States.
The grounds for this have been fully
and fairly stated We would also sup
n 10. e.. a